Digital archives of memory institutions are typically concerned with the cataloguing of
artefacts of artistic, historical, and cultural value. Recently, new forms of citizen participation …

Data management is growing in complexity as large-scale applications take advantage of
the loosely coupled resources brought together by grid middleware and by abundant …

Provenance, ie, the origin or source of something, is becoming an important concern, since it
offers the means to verify data products, to infer their quality, to analyse the processes that …

The openness of the Web and the ease to combine linked data from different sources
creates new challenges. Systems that consume linked data must evaluate quality and …

Abstract The Semantic Web is well recognized as an effective infrastructure to enhance
visibility of knowledge on the Web. The core of the Semantic Web is “ontology”, which is …

Abstract The World Wide Web evolves into a Web of Data, a huge, globally distributed
dataspace that contains a rich body of machine-processable information from a virtually …

The Semantic Web is being designed to enable automated reasoners to be used as core
components in a wide variety of Web applications and services. In order for a client to accept …

The Semantic Web lacks support for explaining answers from web applications. When
applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used …

Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including
applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities …

The Semantic Web can be viewed as one large'universal'RDF graph distributed across
many Web pages. This is impractical for many reasons, so we usually work with a …